Civil war broke out in Leflore County as the supervisors tried to depose the board president. They voted to do so but there is just one problem. The president refused to step down. Then the fun really started. The Taxpayers Channel reported:
Things turned ugly at the meeting of the Leflore County Board of Supervisors when Robert Collins, who the board deposed as President at the last meeting, took the president's chair and at first refused to allow Wayne Self to conduct the meeting as President.
Collins called members out of order when they wouldn't follow his lead, and both Collins and Self would alternatively "call the question" and record the votes on various motions.
Board Attorney Joyce Chiles had provided the board members with a packet of information which she claimed tended to confirm Mr. Collins' claim to remain Board President even though three members voted to oust him at the last meeting and elected Self to take his place.
The suggestion floated about the meeting that the entire dispute would end up in court very shortly. Wolfe told Collins that if he didn't like Self being president, he should sue the Board. Collins responded that Wolfe should sue the board.
Self was supported as president by Phil Wolfe and Anjuan Brown, while Moore appeared to take a non-committal position as to who is actually board president. Moore had not been present when the vote to oust Collins took place on January 2nd.
Robert Moore insisted that the board discuss the dispute over who is the board president.
The Board went into executive session to discuss the dispute of who is actually president of the Board. No lawful reason was given why the Board should go into executive session to discuss the matter, though when asked, Wayne Self said it was "possible litigation," and the press was unlawfully excluded from this portion of the meeting. No action was taken to resolve the Board president dispute... Rest of the article and video
TC posted a video recording of the scrum on its website. Watch it. Confederacy of Dunces might be the appropriate title for the video. Looks like TC needs to file a complaint with the Ethics Commission.
3 comments:
Par for the course. It's bad all over, ain't it?
They have a real history of this in Greenwood. Blurb from one case:
"At the end of his term, a city attorney refused to leave his position until the newly elected mayor appointed—and the city council approved—his successor. The trial court granted the mayor's petition for injunctive and declaratory relief, and the former city attorney now appeals. Because we find the city attorney had no legal authority to remain in office after his term had ended, the chancellor properly granted the injunctive relief, and we affirm his ruling."
Littleton v. McAdams, 60 So. 3d 169, 169 (Miss. 2011).
Most of it involves the same players: the Abrahams, David Jordan, etc.
....."I ain't heard nobody make no motion for executive session"
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